DUFFIELD SCENE OCTOBER 2013 Edition 253 Published Monthly DUFFIELD CRICKETERS DO THE VILLAGE PROUD Duffield Cricket Club has ranks along with older hands players and I thank them for enjoyed its best ever season who have plenty of their dedication. since the Club was founded experience. Our second ground situated in 1878 writes Club The overall success of our directly behind he pavilion senior teams is, I believe, a President David Thorn. was opened last year and is Two teams promoted, a Cup direct result of the Club policy to develop strong junior now in full use by the 3rd XI win for one of the junior and the junior teams. teams and a fifth place finish cricket. We now have junior elevens Further improvements to our in Division One for the first playing competitive matches playing areas have just begun team. at under-11, u-13, u-16 and u- with the re-laying of the main The 2nd XI were runners-up Duffield CC President 17 and many thanks go to square which will take two in Division 5 North and will David Thorn and his their coaches and managers. years to complete. play in Division 4 North next Vice-President wife Biddy For a relatively small village The funding for this season. Our 3rd XI playing its This was a noteworthy Club to field three XIs every first full season on our new achievement as the 3rd XI Saturday throughout the development has been ground came top of Division comprised a significant season has required a major provided through a substantial 9 North and have been number of junior players who effort by the Management grant from Sport England. promoted to Division 8 North. have come through our junior Committee, captains and Continued on page 9 BENZ BAVARIAN Of Duffield Driven By Perfection Established for 26 Years Supplier of Sports & Prestige Vehicles

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Tel: 01335 344281 / 07817 389467 -4- PARISH COUNCIL CONSIDER FUNDING Duffield Parish Council is restriction on membership to consider applications by any organisation to for grants from local which a grant is to be organisations/ projects. made. At its Strategy Finance and •Membership must be open General Purpose Committee to the general public and not meeting next month refused on grounds of (November 20) it will be gender, race, disability, pointed out that to accept a sexual orientation, grant application the occupation, religious, organisation/project must be political or other beliefs. :•Duffield based or carry •Not use the funds for out activities (other than religious belief or party fund-raising) for the benefit political activities. of Duffield residents. The full grant application •Demonstrate it benefits the guidance and grant residents of Duffield. application form can be • Show how it links to the obtained on line at objectives on Duffield www.duffieldpc.org.uk. Parish Councils Parish Plan If you wish to discuss an (which can be viewed at application please call the www.duffieldpc.org.uk) Parish Clerk, Liz Page on •Not be conducted for profit 01332 840285. •Not be exclusive, but Applications must be should allow access to or submitted to the Parish use/participation by the Office or: general public. [email protected] •There must be no by Friday 1 November.

5 -6- Cricketers triumph from page 1 These major ground improvements were a labour of love by our previous Club secretary Keith Redfern who planned, managed and drove through the successful application to Sport England. Everyone at the Club owes him thanks and the legacy of his work will be enjoyed by generations of cricketers to come...... a really sterling effort. The Club has come a long way since I joined in 1961. A new 14-mile garden has been created with over 40 new At that time water had to be current players. planters looking marvellous across the seven Derwent Valley carried from Duffield Railway As President of Duffield Line stations between Duffield and Matlock. Station.There was no water, Cricket Club I would like to Some 500 plants are blooming in 32 new troughs, 10 new barrel electricity or gas laid on to the thank our Patron, Mrs Claude planters and four new hanging baskets installed at stations along pavilion.Pitch covers, practice Lilley and all our vice- the Derwent Valley Line. nets and sightscreens were presidents whose support is These 46 new ‘mini’ gardens add to the existing platform planters unheard of. greatly appreciated. and hanging baskets making an amazing total of 82 floral displays All games were ‘friendlies’ We must now take a fresh across the seven stations. and only started when the guard in readiness for our Station volunteers along the line have been assisting East captain and his cronies could 136th season in 2014, be Midlands Trains and the Derwent Valley Line Community Rail be persuaded to leave the proud of our history, secure Partnership to install and create wonderful floral displays in the 46 White Hart. in the skill and ambition of new plant containers. The cricket, once it began, today’s players and it could Passengers arriving at Duffield are welcomed by 5 new planting was hard and enjoyable as I well be that even better is troughs fixed to the station fence complementing the existing hope it is today for the yet to come. platform planters and hanging baskets.

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10 Reader’s letter YOUR HEALTH AND WELL BEING Chiropractic is a refer you to a GP or When a patient is in chronic Dear Barrie Please can I extend science of health. other specialist if the pain their stress hormones in sincere thanks to We are not disorder requires the body increase. everyone who concerned with medical intervention. The answer is to get the sponsored my recent 15 disease per se, just As chiropractors, nervous system to recognise mile run to raise the correction of we use manipulation that it is releasing hormones money for Cancer Research. the nervous system to adjust the spine that increase heart rate and With your help, we were mechanics through by and restore health blood pressure, and decrease able to present a cheque the many reflexes of Dr. Stavros Mihaletos and function. digestion and growth hormone. for £1,425 to Anne’s the muscles, bones DC MChiro A spinal adjustment We do that by correcting the consultant Dr. Persic to and joints. must be very specific in spinal irritation in the joint pay for vital equipment for her Oncology Lower back pain is one of the location, direction and complex, and restore function department needs and most common complaints we amplitude to be effective. to support the body’s ability to for which she was very are presented with in practise. Pain is a symptom of the strengthen and heal itself. grateful. The NHS recognised NICE dysfunction or irritation of the Any further questions please The money in total will be some £1,700 once gift Guidelines recommend nervous system, which causes email me at: aid has also been chiropractic treatment for release of inflammatory [email protected] collected by the hospital. lower back pain as clinical chemicals and tissue changes m, or call for a free Thank you once again, trials show excellent short and that can lead to aberrant spinal consultation on: long term health results. motion and joint and muscle 01773-240020. Regards Rodney Wood Your chiropractic doctor will degeneration.

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-15- RAY’S CRUSADE CURBS THE DREADED HIMLAYAN BALSAM There are times when branches still fruit squares because it 100 million – 3 billion which numbers mean a lot and laden where stays uniform in equates to one ton per acre! others when they seem pigeons cannot texture if dried They are single cell meaningless. Remembering reach, hazel nut slowly. Some organisms that reproduce how many children you shells lying people believe by dividing, so that one have, birthday dates, your under their that if you bacterium is capable of debit card pin when at the trees discarded throw a pip producing 16 million more supermarket check out, the by squirrels into the fire in 24 hours. Microscopic temperature at which to who have whilst fungi (yeasts and moulds) cook jacket potatoes, your already eaten reciting are abundant, where one car registration when trying this year’s your love’s teaspoonful of soil may to buy a parking ticket, your crop unaware name and it contain up to a million and by wedding anniversary, your that at the end explodes, are essential for breaking MILLENIUM MEADOW lottery ticket numbers (and of many twigs yours is a down dead organic matter. CHAIR DI HANCOCK where you put the ticket in the pale green true love. It has recently been case you win), measuring for catkins for next Autumn is also confirmed that one sort – curtains and ordering a Spring have a time for arbuscular mychorrhiza – round of drinks at the bar already emerged planting new trees has been around for at least are all important numbers. and a large, flat fungi and bulbs, allowing 460 billion years according They are also capable of hidden in the grass has their roots to get established to the fossil record and are being imagined – small released its millions of tiny before emerging next an important part of a soil’s enough to be remembered. spores and is being eaten by Spring. The success of these organic content. Words like billions and slugs. new plantings will depend Meanwhile, Ray Dolly has trillions cease to have been having a personal meaning, as they are too crusade against Himalayan large to visualise. They are Balsam on the Meadow for not usually part of our daily the past three years and life other than announcements because he pulls up on the news regarding the individual plants (even the horror of starving, petrified tiny ones), he has kept a refugees, a country’s deficit running total – 25,500 for or how much a bank has the past two years (13,400 lost. The number of people this year so far) Not only is on the earth is hard to this an amazing comprehend other than in achievement but it is one an abstract way because it’s with which we can identify an impossibly large number. and the numbers – This makes it hard to fully impressive as they are – are understand the enormity of entirely comprehensible. things in nature too. Each plant can potentially Stand looking at an Ash tree have up to 700 seeds, so Ray on the Meadow and marvel continues to save the at the profusion of bunches Meadow from being of keys hanging from its overrun by taking it one branches this year and idly plant at a time and his speculate how many there The pingpong sized, yellow on lots of different factors perseverance is paying are to each tree. Counting and red crab apples hang in but one of them will be the dividends. If he had known ash keys or the elderberries festoons from the medium health of the soil. A good soil that he would be pulling that on any tree is an impossible sized trees –sour and hard will have a range of organic many at the beginning, he (and fruitless!) task but they until softened by frost or compounds and minerals may well have been must run into tens of fallen and bruised when within it that will have been disinclined to start and may thousands if not millions per insects, mice and birds eat released from decaying have felt that it was plant. them. Inedible to us humans matter or stabilized by fungi impossible to make a Much of this bounty is straight from the tree, they and bacteria. difference! As it is, we owe already being stripped by make wonderful jelly and We cannot see these with the him thanks because he birds, mammals and insects have been cultivated for naked eye and their patently has! as they bulk up for winter – thousands of years. A few numbers are too numerous And yes, we are hoping to rowan trees heavy with were found in an early to easily understand. For have the cattle back on to scarlet berries eyed by Bronze Age coffin and the instance, soil bacteria are so graze this winter so look out blackbirds against a wintery wood has been used to make tiny that 1gramme of soil for notices later in the year. frost, low elderberry drawing instruments like set may contain anything from -16 Duffield Parish Council

Newsletter for OCTOBER 2013 The Parish Council met on 4 September 2013 after the summer recess and t decided to obtain a structural engineer's report on condition of the EYES MEADOW changing rooms. It also decided to consult the Parishioners on the facilities on Eyes Meadow. The questionnaire is included in this edition of the Duffield Scene. Please complete and return it to the Parish Office. Alternatively you can go on line and complete it at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/CQH9QMT

The Council have put a comments book in the porch at the Cemetery Lodge, if you are a regular visitor to the Cemetery and wish to make a comment please do so.

The Council is organising the annual firework and bonfire night and this will be held on Friday 1 November 2013 at 7pm on Eyes Meadow. Entry cost £2 by ticket purchased in advance or £3 on the night. Under 5's are free of charge.

The Council wishes to thank the individual who jet-washed the Wirksworth Corner area.

The Council has been informed by Derbyshire County Council that it intends to consult parishioners on the switching off of selected lampposts between the hours of 12 midnight and 5.30am. You should all receive a letter in due course. The consultation period will begin on 14 October 2013 and the plans can be viewed on line or at the Parish Office during opening hours.

Parish Council meetings are open to the public to attend to listen or address the Council on any Parish issues. Correspondence from parishioners is also reported to the meetings.

Full Council will meet on 2 October at 7pm at the Weston Centre and will consider the vacant property at 26 Hazelwood Road, the progress made on strategy for Eyes Meadow and the planning application at Duffield Hall.

The Recreational Committee will meet on 16 October at 7pm at Weston Centre and will consider the re-tendering of the Council's ground maintenance contract, a safety report on Gray Recreation Ground children's play area, litter bin provision on Eyes Meadow and rabbit control on Eyes Meadow.

Agendas and minutes of the meetings can be viewed on line at www.duffieldpc.org.uk

CONTACTS The Parish Office: The Weston Centre, Tamworth Street, Duffield, DE56 4ER / Open to the public- 10am to 12 noon Monday and Wednesday / Telephone - 01332 842740 / Email - [email protected] or [email protected]

The Cemetery: Hazelwood Road, Duffield / Telephone 01332 840265 / Email - [email protected]

Borough Councillor-Chris Short-01332 843781

Borough and County Councillor-Stuart Bradford-01773 550828 -17 - TIGHTEN UP YOUR PERSONAL SAFETY...EARLIER, DARKEN NIGHTS ARE UPON US This month’s article especially if you are in a someone or some vehicle contains an item I strange area. approaching you. recently received from the It has published details of 6. If you spot possible Chesterfield and District this years ‘Streets Ahead’ danger it is advisable to Neighbourhood Watch campaign and the major take action immediately. Group about personal ones are here reproduced: Change your route/cross safety which I thought 1. Consider where you are the road. Pop into a shop would be useful to pass on going and how you will get or a pub or a garage or a as we head for winter and there. friend’s house, anywhere earlier darker nights, 2. Is the route you are where there are plenty of together with a request planning busy and other people. from the police about a well lit? Can you avoid 7. Try to walk facing the mobile phone myth that any ‘high risk’ spots such traffic to avoid any kerb has been circulating as quiet or badly lit areas, crawlers. If a vehicle does recently. subways or isolated car pull up beside you, if you by parks? have any doubts, turn For most of us the streets 3. Consider carrying a round and walk quickly Valerie Thorpe are safe and somewhere we personal alarm which can away. 841945 can walk without the fear be used to 8. Trust your instincts. of becoming a victim of shock/disorientate an If you think you are being crime. attacker if necessary, followed cross the road, The risks of ever suffering giving you time to get turning to see who is from a violent or away. behind you. aggressive incident is 4. Stay alert! The sooner If you are still being recently pretty low. you perceive a potential followed, head for a safe which have turned However, it does exist and danger the easier it is to place as stated above. the Suzy Lamplugh Trust, avoid it. 9. Try not to let the fear of out to be people who are which is a campaigning 5. Avoid wearing earphones , crime stop you going out trying to get more charge organisation, regularly chatting/texting when and about. on their phone. “Every stresses the needs for walking down the street. Taking precautions to time we get a silent or personal safety whether This will distract you from minimise risks will not aborted 999 call we have to you are in your own your surroundings and only make you safer, it spend time ringing that neighbourhood or more could prevent you hearing should make you feel safer person back to ensure they and give you more street are safe. That takes up confidence. valuable time which could 10. If you want to check the be spent dealing with a real web site it is emergency. www.suzylamplugh.org “We’re appealing to Branding I Graphic Design I Packaging and is well worth a visit. anyone who hears this Exhibitions I Website Design I Marketing myth to ignore it and not Derbyshire Constabulary waste their time or the time is appealing to mobile of emergency service phone users not to believe personnel.” a myth that dialling 999 boosts the phone’s Reporting incidents battery. The myth, which has been Please report non-serious circulating for the last year, crimes and incidents to suggests that dialling 999 from a mobile and the police on the non- immediately disconnecting emergency number 101. will charge the battery. For emergencies, such as The idea has been traced when a crime is in back to comments on a progress, when there is Blackberry phone forum danger to life or when but is completely untrue. violence is being used or A Derbyshire police threatened, 999 should be spokesman said: used. “There is no way any If you have any mobile phone battery can information on crime or be boosted by anything www.snakelane.co.uk other than a normal anti-social behaviour please contact Derbyshire Snake Lane Design 01332 840 880 [email protected] charger. We have received 7 Market Place, Cathedral Quarter, Derby DE1 3QE several silent 999 calls police on 101 or call

-18- Cricket is a team game and many players who have helped Duffield Cricket Club to their most successful season ever do not feature in the leading averages, but the respective team captains acknowledge that but for them and their timely contributions the Club would not have had its best ever season. Duffield cricketers of past generations have attended a number of matches and are full of praise for the skill and effort of the current generation. Well done lads and all the best to each of you for your future in the game 1st XI BATTING Games Inns Not Runs High Avg Peter Jenkins was a model of consistency and the only 1 Peter Jenkins 21 20 8 495 68 41.25 batsman to average over 40 in Division One. A highest 2 Thomas Roe 21 21 4 667 132* 39.24 score of 68 and only two fifties outlined his reliability. 3 Paul Bakel 22 21 2 614 74 32.32 The entertaining Thomas Roe with four fifties and a 4 Jack Clark 22 22 1 545 124 25.95 century was the highest run scorer with 84 4’s and eight 5 Matthew Goodacre 9 9 0 217 70 24.11 6’s giving him an excellent strike rate of over 81 per 6 Chris Sheldon 13 13 2 223 42 20.27 100 balls. Skipper Paul Bakel with over 600 runs and 7 Tim Williscroft 18 16 2 229 33 16.36 young Jack Clark, who topped 500 after dropping into 8 Balraj Johal 19 10 2 106 46* 13.25 the middle order were reliable performers and the 9 Tom Holmes 22 14 5 103 39 11.44 lower order batsmen often provided valuable 10 Alex Jones 22 13 4 97 24* 10.78 partnerships- both defensive and attacking in the quest 11 Adam Short 18 8 2 55 20 9.17 for points. Team: Played 22 Won 7 Drawn 10 Lost 5 Pos: 5th The medium pace bowling of Adam Short, who took 1st XI BOWLING Overs Mdns Runs Wkts Best Avg five wickets in an innings five times in Division One 1 Adam Short 197 35 790 48 6/67 16.40 league matches was the highlight of the attack and he 2 Balraj Johal 199.4 25 806 41 4/7 19.66 was ably supported by slow left arm bowler Balraj 3 Alex Jones 274 40 1116 34 4/49 32.82 Johal’s 41 wickets. Left arm seamer Alex Jones’ 34 4 Richard Jordan 183 48 486 10 2/32 48.60 wickets were costly, as were those of Richard Jordan who atoned with a miserly 2.66 run average per over.

2ND XI BATTING Games Inns Not Runs High Avg Opening batsman Steven Muskett had a phenomenal 1Steven Muskett 10 10 1 600 139 66.67 season with three centuries and two fifties all scored at a 2 Philip Jordan 13 13 2 474 128* 43.09 rate (51 fours and 18 sixes) to disturb the best attacks and 3 Russell King 17 17 2 495 130* 33.00 make life easier for others, All rounder Philip King (1 4 Will Witten 16 16 5 222 59* 20.18 century and 3 fifties) had his best ever season with the bat 5 Keith Blake 11 10 0 194 47 19.40 as Steve’s opening partner and skipper Russell King (1 6 Ian Bowyer 17 17 1 304 47 19.00 century and 4 fifties) provided innings the game 7 Travis Birtwhistle 11 11 2 171 56 19 .00 demanded. There was much to appreciate in efforts by 8 Mark Antill 15 13 0 124 37 9.54 Will Whitten, Keith Blake, Ian Bowyer and Travis 9 Rob Ralph 17 13 4 64 17 7.11 Birtwhistle who will all be better for the experience. Team: Played 20 Won 10 Drawn 6 Lost4 Pos: 2nd 2ND XI BOWLING The lively medium pace of Will Eisenberg proved a Overs Mdns Runs Wkts Best Ave major factor in Duffield’s attack which depended a lot 1 Will Eisenberg 120.5 23 468 34 5/56 13.76 on him and fellow seamers Mark Antill and Philip 2 Mark Antill 153.3 56 357 25 4/13 14.28 Jordan who took 85 League wickets between them. 3Philip Jordan 110 17 393 26 7/44 15.11 Will’s strike rate was a wicket in just over every three 4 Richard Jordan 51 13 175 10 5/24 17.50 overs, more than a third of Mark’s overs were maidens 5 Lee Wozniczka-Wells 79 24 227 12 4/41 18.90 as he continued to play despite late working hours and 6 Lewis Reed 46.5 3 221 10 3/14 22.10 Philip, with two five-wicket hauls got better as the 7 James Rhodes 69 9 320 12 3/20 26.60 season progressed.

3RD XI BATTING Games Inns Not Runs High Avg Will Clare, with two centuries and over 500 runs was 1 Will Clare 16 14 1 501 112* 38.54 the key performer and the trio of Binghams - Dave Alex 2 Dave Bingham 15 12 2 296 69 29.6 and Adam - all scored over 200 runs as did Luke 3 Alex Burnham 16 14 1 291 83* 22.38 Turnbull. Players like Travis Birtwhistle averaged 83.5 4 Adam Burnham 14 13 2 246 59 22.36 (including 1 century) in five innings, Mark Antill a 5 Luke Turnbull 17 13 3 207 55 20.7 0 hundred in one of two appearances and many of the 6 Michael Dent 14 11 5 66 19* 11.00 regulars came off when the team was struggling. Team: Played 20 Won 11 Drawn 5 Lost 4 Pos: 1st 3RD XI BOWLING Overs Mdns Runs Wkts Average A lot of the younger players got senior experience as 24 1. Hugh Kelly 53.1 16 118 12 9.83 players bowled for the 3rd XI. There were a number of 2 Travis Birtwhistle 38 5 123 11 11.18 match winning performances and Mark Antill, Travis 3 Alex Burnham 67.4 13 181 16 11.31 Birtwhistle, Hugh Kelly and Lewis Reed all made five 4 Lewis Reed 91.2 20 265 21 12.60 5 Michael Dent 79 9 305 13 23.40 wicket match returns. The value of accurate line and 6 Simon Tapping 90 14 309 13 23.76 length bowling - well done coaches - was apparent as not 7 Luke Turnbull 89.4 18 311 13 23.90 many teams got away to large totals. -19- DUFFIELD READY FOR NEW SQUASH SEASON The successful Duffield each season, to have a strong Benz Bavarian team starts group so you can best SPriPvaRte RIeNsidGenWtial COareO HoDme H forO theU ElSderE ly the new season in Division A overcome the loss of top Duffield Bank, Duffield, Derbyshire DE56 4BG of the Premier Squash players to internationals calls www.springwoodhouseresidentialhome.co.uk League this month (7.30pm and world championships October 22nd) with a home and the bugbear of injuries,” fixture against Courtcraft- said Felix. Pontefract. “We have done all we can to After reaching the final of the prepare for those championship as group eventualities and maintain winners for the last two our reputation as one of the seasons - both narrowly lost - top teams in the country.” manager Felix Frixou has got together a strong squad: BONFIRE NIGHT Nick Matthew Duffield Parish Council Steve Coppinger is organising the Karim Ali Fathi Joel Hinds annual Firework and Variety of care packages: a permanent room to make Andy Whipp Bonfire night. your own, convalescent, respite & holidays Aqeel Rehman It will be held on • 24 hour care by highly trained and experienced staff Adam Murrills Friday 1 November • Home cooking, special diets & preferences catered for Ashley Davies 2013 at 7pm on Eyes • Two state of the art passenger lifts accessing all floors Curtis Tomlinson Meadow. Scott Hanley • Visiting chiropody / optician / hairdresser and Entry cost: £2 by Declan James assistance with dental appointments. ticket purchased in Laura Massaro • Ramp access to the landscaped gardens, fish pond Fiona Scott advance or £3 on the Tania Bailey night. and summer house. Lily Taylor. Under 5's are free of • Entertainment activities and regular events “It is essential now, with the charge. For a brochure / more information call 01332 840757 competition getting fiercer